The Immigrant

In a world of rapidly changing values and traditions an Indian woman enters into an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows and moves to distant Canada. Thirty-year-old Nina is an English teacher living alone in Jangpura India. With diminishing prospects she agrees to an arranged union. Her groom is the Indian-born Ananda who lives in Canada. He once dreamed of becoming a doctor but settled for dentistry. He is lonely and also in want of a spouse.. Their life together is not what either expected. Unable to find work teaching in Nova Scotia Nina takes a job at the local library. Ananda is troubled by his own response to the sexual aspects of their relationship. Assimilating into a new culture pales in comparison to the trials of marriage—its ups and downs its inevitable compromises . . . and the temptations of illicit passion.